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10 Apps for Students to Be More Productive

Today it’s hard to find a student who doesn’t own a mobile device. Smartphones, tablets, smart watches – students are perhaps the heaviest internet consumers with gazillions of traffic consumed. Studying, entertaining, romance and cooking. The scope of interests is pretty large.

Should you seek to update your user case with some new nifty apps designed to make you a more productive both inside and outside the classroom, read this article and set off to Google Play or App Store at once.

Any.do

An efficient student is the one with all his or her daily routines organized in a coherent manner. Any.do could’ve been ‘yet another mobile organizer’ if it hadn’t been used by millions of students worldwide, featured synchronization with all your devices and supported multi-touch. Definitely your number one choice.

Mailbox

Normally students have several emails from different providers (for business and pleasure). But when the number of mailboxes gets too immense, you can easily get lost in all those passwords and account names. In its turn, Mailbox app lets you manage all your emails in one inbox. Other nifty features are available too.

Feed.ly

Keeping the hand on the pulse of the recent news, celeb ongoings and updates regarding new episodes of your favorite series, for example, is very important for modern students. But as with emails, the number of accounts in social networks and news aggregators may go out of control. But Feed.ly here will help manage your RSS news line and subscriptions in one useful app.

Scribd

The era of land-based libraries with all those dusty piles of books seems to gradually slide into oblivion. With apps like Scribd you can cater for all your looking-reference-sources-and-textbooks-up needs in just one place. Using the app, you can sort out literature according to genres, topics, authors, etc.

Mathway

Solving Math problems is quite hard, no need to hide this one weakness of yours. However, with this new classy app the process of solving Math assignments becomes easier. Just enter the task and follow the step-by-step guide to the solution and compare the answer to your own.

EasyBib

Writing a nice essay is half the problem. Another half is referencing it properly. If MLA and APA aren’t your best pals, go for EasyBib and have the properly formatted citation to enter in your Bibliography chapter almost at once.

SelfControl

The temptation to check out Twitter feed while on a lecture is sometimes beyond your willpower to resist. With this in mind, SelfControl app will block certain websites and apps from visiting during a set period of time. But when a lecture is over, you can like all those photos and posts right ahead!

TED

When it comes to self-motivation, TED is unrivaled. If you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s a service broadcasting and streaming motivational speeches of thought leaders from all over the world in many areas of expertise, from Economy to dating. Lacking motivation to proceed with your studies or student routines? Install TED app now, motivate yourself even more than originally needed!

Duolingo

As a student who came from abroad, having English as your second language might be tough. If you seek to connect with fellow students and teachers in a more eloquent manner, as well as turn in better written assignments, Duolingo is the best foreign language learning app so far.

Snap2PDF

Facing hard times with PDF files? Snap2PDF lets you make a photo of a certain text and convert it into a PDF file with just one click. The app usually features in top 10 business applications worldwide. So, its efficiency goes without saying.

About the author:

Nicole Nelson is an independent journalist, active blogger, and short essay writer at http://essaygobuy.com/. Some say Nicole was born with a printing machine in her hands. A day spent without any page written is a day spent in vain!

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Nicole Nelson .